ROME, Aug 08 (IPS) – Laetitia Bader is a senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch”Military service was the only prospect on my horizon — I didn’t want that,” a 20-year-old Eritrean who fled the country last year told me. “My dad had spent his whole life in military service.”Read the full story, “Along with Peace, Eritreans Need Repression to…

By Prak Chan Thul and Amy Sawitta Lefevre PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) said on Monday it had won all 125 parliamentary seats up for grabs in a general election a day earlier that critics said was neither free nor fair. “The CPP won 77.5 percent of the votes and won all…

Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car Project, plans to launch its first commercial service for self-driving cars later this year, essentially a fully automated ride-hailing service covering about 100 square miles in Phoenix, Arizona. The company is called Navya, and its two self-driving cars currently on sale include the Autonom Shuttle and the smaller Autonom Cab. Navya says its vehicles…